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Near Mannheim, West Germany, March 1962: In a scene familiar to soldiers and veterans everywhere, members of the 2nd Battle Group, 47th Infantry, line up for chow after completing the first leg of a motor march from Augsburg to Berlin.

Target practice on USS Bataan, 2001

Somewhere in the Arabian Sea, Nov. 30, 2001: Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) fire their weapons off the end of the USS Bataan.



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Shel Silverstein in Tokyo, 1954

Tokyo, Japan, 1954: Artist Shel Silverstein checks a pre-press plate before it is printed, along with Pacific Stars and Stripes staff at the Hardy Barracks building.

Search in Iraq, 2007

Arab Jabour district, Iraq, July 5, 2007: Pvt. Erik Stroehlein, 22, of Bennington, Vt., holds a light for Capt. Eric Melloh, 30, of Huntsville, Texas, during the search of the home of a man suspected of helping insurgents direct mortar fire at Forward Operating Base Murray southeast of Baghdad.

Bosnia and Herzegovina 10-Miler, 2000

Camp Comanche, Bosnia and Herzegovina, October 2000: During an eerie, foggy Bosnian morning, more than 400 runners participated in an overseas version of the Army 10-Miler.

In search of the perfect bubble, 1989

Frankfurt, West Germany, January 1989: Nine-year-old Angela Duke concentrates on creating the perfect bubble-gum bubble during an after-school contest at the McNair Kaserne housing area.

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Trixie the dog, 1958

South Korea, August 1958: Trixie has some tricks up her paw as she seems to pilot the H-13 Sioux helicopter of the 6th Transport Company (Helicopter), but it’s actually the photographer’s trick angle that makes the actual pilot, Chief Warrant Officer Charles C. Baldwin disappear.

Security patrol in Afghanistan, 2015

Parwan province, Afghanistan, June 10, 2015: Navy Corpsman 1st Class Darrell Jones takes a knee while U.S. and Georgian troops question Afghan locals during a security patrol.

Bookworms at Ramstein Elementary School, 2008

Ramstein, Germany, Aug. 7, 2008: Calin Petro, 7, sporting a Pony Tails shirt, jeans and North Side tennis shoes on the left and Kaelin Gould, 6, wearing a Beautees shirt, jeans and Skechers tennis shoes strike a pose in the Ramstein Elementary School library.

Cleaning up at Pomeroy Hall, 1960

Seoul, South Korea, December 1960: Robert Harilee vacuums his room at Pomeroy Hall. The 17-year-old lived with 11 girls and 15 boys in Pomeroy Hall while attending nearby American High School on the Seoul Area South Command Post.

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